Isolated thunderstorms developed over much of the area on the afternoon and evening of the 9th. Dry air beneath the cloud bases led to an evaporatively enhanced downburst directly over the Amherst (Lamb County) mesonet.
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Isolated thunderstorms developed over much of the area on the afternoon and evening of the 9th. Dry air beneath the cloud bases led to an evaporatively enhanced downburst directly over the Amherst (Lamb County) mesonet.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 9, 1:29 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 229 PM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022 .SHORT TERM... An upper level high pressure dome is centered along the Colorado/Utah state line and little movement is anticipated over the next 24 hours. This places West Texas under a northeasterly flow aloft. While this tends to be dry in the cool season, the undercutting mid-level moisture continues to drive cloudiness and a chance of storms tonight and tomorrow. Early afternoon analysis indicates two primary boundaries across the CWA. The first lies along our northern row of counties with a second extending roughly along a line from CDS to Plains. With surface heating, Cu field has become increasingly agitated in these areas and thus, convective initiation is best suited along and near these two boundaries. An MCV near Portales is evident on visible satellite and seems to be playing a role in destabilization across the western two rows of counties. Another MCV may exist across Briscoe county though its features are much more subtle. Still, a disturbed Cu field is noted across Cottle and Childress counties; a likely result of the presence. Shear remains quite weak with 0-6km values under 10KT tonight increasing to perhaps 15KT on Wednesday. Combined with tall, but ectomorphic CAPE, this should manifest itself via a series of pulse- mode storms which propagate via outflow processes and subsequent boundary interactions. While the confidence in storms occurring is high, exactly when and where is another story. Resultingly, have broad-brushed chance POPs across the CWA. It's conceivable that a few locations could spy rainfall amounts in the 0.5" to 2" range given slow motion vectors. Additionally, wind gusts to about 50 mph could occur with the stronger storm collapse events and one or two gusts to 60 mph could be seen. Indications are that storms could wane late tonight (particularly across the eastern half of the CWFA) then pick up once again close to sunrise on Wednesday morning. Temperatures will, of course, be cooler with highs only in the 80s to lower 90s on Wednesday. .LONG TERM... Overall the forecast tomorrow evening through mid next week is lack luster. Any precip across the region tomorrow afternoon will diminish fairly quickly after sunset with the exception of a few straggling showers. The upper high currently situated over the Four Corners will push eastward by Thursday morning and will settle over the Central Plains by Thursday afternoon. It is then progged to drift slowly southward until it encompasses the Southern Great Plains. While there are no mentionable chances in the forecast, there is still the potential for a shower/storm or two during the late afternoon hours. This is especially so if there are subtle weaknesses in the upper high while it is to our north. Rain chances become even less likely, but not impossible, as the upper high moves overhead this weekend. One thing that is more certain is temps increasing to near/over the century mark by the late weekend and early next week. Though beyond the forecast period, global models are in a decent agreement of a pattern change by late next week with the upper ridge building westward across the western US placing the FA under northwesterly flow aloft. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 26/51
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 345 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022 TXZ021>044-100845- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 345 AM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Showers and thunderstorms will be possible area wide today. While widespread severe weather is unlikely, a few strong wind gusts to 60 mph will be possible with the strongest thunderstorms. Locally heavy rainfall will also be possible with the strongest thunderstorms as they slowly drift to the north. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible across much of the region on Wednesday and over the far southwestern Texas Panhandle and South Plains on Thursday. Localized heavy rain and wind gusts to 60 mph will be possible with the strongest storms, but widespread severe weather is not currently expected. Hazardous weather is not expected after Thursday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
307 PM CDT TUE AUG 09 2022
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0245 PM TSTM WND GST 1 NE AMHERST 34.02N 102.40W
08/09/2022 M61 MPH LAMB TX MESONET
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EVENT NUMBER LUB2200122
RCBSpecial Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
310 PM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
TXZ028-034-092045-
Hockley TX-Lamb TX-
310 PM CDT Tue Aug 9 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of north central
Hockley and southern Lamb Counties through 345 PM CDT...
At 310 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles southwest of Amherst, or 9 miles west of Littlefield, moving
southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Littlefield and Amherst.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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LAT...LON 3391 10262 3404 10252 3393 10220 3370 10237
3388 10262
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 302DEG 13KT 3393 10251
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
07The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:46 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Amherst measured a severe wind gust of 61 mph.
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